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With all due respect, I doubt this issue relates to your Plan G Medical Supplement. It probably relates to managed care plans which UHC runs. Medicare benefits are fixed and are determined by Medicare. The "carrier" that write your Supplemental policy has no say as to what gets paid or how much.

Quite a few RVs use standard "Over the Range 30"" microwave ovens that don't require any special accommodations.

I ran mine that way for >8 years until I discontinued DirecTV and switched exclusively to streaming video.

I believe that the natural gas vehicles you are referring to run on compressed natural gas. Yes, that's the same gas we get at our homes but it is delivered to vehicles at specialized transfer stations. It, like electric vehicles, would require a new infrastructure if it was to go into widespread application. We happen to have a CNG station not too far from our home in TX. Mostly, I see trash trucks using it.

With all due respect, the SK3005 is designed to lock onto 101, 110 and 119. When it is locked to those three the LNB for 99 and 103 will be in the correct position. There are two different kinds of LNBs on the Sk3005 because 101, 110, and 119 broadcast on the Ku band and 99 and 103 use the Ka band. The Sk3005 can easily be converted to use with the H25 receiver and the SWM configuration by the addition of a SWM8 switch and a PI29 power inserter. All of this is detailed in a Winegard publication which can be accessed here: Use of Winegard satellite systems with SWM

I installed one of the Watts units in my RV two months ago. We winter in a hard water area of south TX and my 10,000 grain water softener didn't go more than a couple of weeks before needing recharging (we do have a washer/dryer onboard). We definitely do get white "gunk" inside our faucets in the valves and the strainers plus I know there are deposits inside the water heater despite my regularly replacing the anode. Installation was straightforward and then the question was "is it doing anything?" Since it doesn't actually remove the calcium and magnesium from the water you can't use test strips to measure the effectiveness. However, I did notice one surprising indicator of effectiveness. We use bone china coffee cups every morning and after a week or two of use they would always develop brown stains on the inside despite the fact we washed them every day. The stain could be bleached away but normal scrubbing wouldn't remove it. After a couple of weeks I noticed that the cups were no longer developing those stains. My assumption of what was happening was that the stain was in scale that was being deposited inside the cups and the de-scaler was preventing it from happening. That gave me a way to see if the 3-year life claim is realistic. As long as the cups aren't stained then the system must be working. As for the break-in period, I had to clean the screens on our faucets a couple of times in the first several months, as the instructions warned would be the case, but that wasn't a big deal. I'm pretty sure that the flow through my Moen kitchen faucet has now improved a bit. It has a flow restrictor that was almost annoying in its effectiveness, but I've now measured the flow rate and it appears to be a bit higher than it has been. I attribute this to a "cleaning" of the the passages in the faucet head.

IPhone hotspots have sort of a "sleep mode" in which they become invisible to non-Apple devices. What I have found works best is to start by: 1. Turn hotspot off 2. Turn WiFi totally off for 30 seconds then back on 3. Turn hotspot on and make sure to check the box "Share this connection" 4. Use the "quick menu" that you get by swiping down from the right corner to temporarily turn off WiFi otherwise the phone will use WiFi rather than LTE. If this doesn't make the hotspot visible to other devices then reboot the phone and try again.

You don't say which Pandora subscription level you are currently paying for. It's my understanding that in addition to "free" there are two paid levels. We have the premium level and with it I know that my wife can search for a single song and have it played. I don't know if the "randomness" aspect of the music has the same issues you are describing but my wife is pleased with it and she's the audiophile in our family.

You don't say what kind of phone you are using for your Visible account. If it is an iPhone you need to understand that connecting an iPhone's hotspot to a non-iOS device can be a bit challenging. If you are using an iPhone, let me know and I'll walk you through the steps you need to take.

With all due respect, if you plan on taking many trips during the warm seasons when road repair is ongoing, then you will encounter construction. My approach is not to worry about it and just get used to driving with barriers on both sides. I don't like it, but, most of the time, it is easier to put up with it than trying to find detours. JMO

In the latest software update for my 2020 Subaru Outback, the auto On/Off function disable was moved to the home screen. Even though it still comes up as the default, it is easily defeated. IMHO it is about as useless as the feature on my 1975 Volvo which required that the seat belt be buckled in order to start the engine. That, also, was dispensed with after less than a year!

IMHO this is a bit of an oversimplification. A deuterium-tritium fusion reaction produces a pair of 14.1 MeV neutrons which contain most of the energy of the process. While these neutrons, themselves, aren't radioactive, they can create all sorts of radioactive isotopes when they are absorbed by matter. To say it a bit differently, the neutron flux from a fusion reactor can "induce" radioactivity in a wide ranger of materials. The most common approach for capturing this energy and using it in a reactor would be to surround the fusion "core" with a blanket of liquid lithium to absorb the neutrons. That's well within current engineering skills but neither is it "easy."

Although that anecdote might sound amusing, the real reason that Oak Ridge has some silver wire is that during the peak of wartime production, copper was needed more for ammunition than it was for electrical purposes. Furthermore, massive copper purchases by an otherwise obscure "Manhattan Engineering District" would have possibly exposed activities that needed to stay secret. Here's an article about the use of silver in the Manhattan Project: https://www.americanscientist.org/article/from-treasury-vault-to-the-manhattan-project

You're the one who took issue when I said that humans can't make gamma rays because they are created by nuclear processes (or lightning). There simply is no human-created process that can generate electromagnetic radiation with wavelengths that short.

Gamma rays are created by nuclear interactions such as are found in radioactive elements, nuclear weapons explosions, nuclear reactors, neutron stars, etc. One of the most common gamma ray sources is Cobalt-60 which is a man-made isotope used for cancer treatment. If you want to contend that humans can "create" gamma radiation because we can build and explode a nuclear weapon, or because he can synthesize Co-60, then you're welcome to say that. But, in reality, humans aren't "making" the gamma ray. Yes, relatively recently it was discovered that terrestrial gamma ray flashes exist, but that's not where how the majority of gamma rays are generated.

Gamma rays have a wavelength of a couple of Angstroms; microwaves have wavelengths of a couple of centimeters. There's no comparison and humans can't create gamma rays. But other than that, yes, they are both electromagnetic radiation.

I assume you know that there's no relationship between the electromagnetic radiation used in a microwave oven and the kind of "radiation" associated with nuclear energy. Your statement is a non sequitur.

Many of the fuel rods for which there is no permanent storage facility are stored in "pools" around operating reactors. I'm not a safety expert so I can't speak to the safety aspects of that arrangement.

The US reprocessing I am personally familiar with is what went on at the Department of Energy Hanford site in Washington State. That's where the fuel rods from the production reactors were reprocessed to extract uranium. The "hot stuff" from that reprocessing fills >250 huge tanks at Hanford and is a continuing threat to the Columbia River. The legacy of these Cold War sites added to the fears from TMI, Chernobyl and Fukushima make it difficult to imagine being able to convince the US citizenry to accept nuclear power again, not at least anytime soon.

With all due respect, the problem has NEVER been about where the waste will go. The problem results from the "Carter Doctrine" that stated that the US will not reprocess fuel rods. As a result, instead of separating out the relatively small quantity of highly radioactive wastes and then reusing the fuel rods, we treat the entire fuel rod as waste even though it still contains most of the U235 fuel that hasn't been fissioned. More than 20 years ago I was permitted to visit the facility where France keeps all the vitrified (glassified) high level wastes that are separated from their reactor fuel rods. The facility was remarkably small even though, at that time, France was generating >75% of its power from nuclear reactors. The high level wastes were turned into glass cylinders which were then inserted into holes in a concrete and lead storage matrix. The need for the huge facility that was once planned for Yucca Mountain was due to the fact that we were going to store huge quantities of unprocessed fuel rods. It makes no economic sense and never has.

Not yet for something the size of mine: https://www.navitassemi.com/dell-adopts-navitas-ganfast-technology-for-laptop-fast-charger/

How about a replacement for the gigantic 240W power brick that came with my Dell G5. Any chance of finding something smaller?

We currently (this week) have a son, DIL and teenagers who are vacationing in FL because they wanted to. The parents just had their first shots but the kids, of course, have had none. Statistically, they ought to be OK, but we tried to persuade them not to until we were blue in the face. If they come back safe, no doubt they will say "we told you so." It appears to be impossible to get most people to understand risk and probabilities. Yes, most people do recover from COVID-19 but some do die and some have lasting serious symptoms. Yes, there is an annual flu season and people do die from the flu. But the death rate from flu is ~0.1% and the death rate from COVID is ~3-4%. If you aren't good with percentages, that's a factor of 30-40 worse. Even though we both have had the Pfizer vaccine we continue to wear masks when out in public. The data released today showed that the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines are ~90% effective. That still means that ~10% will still get sick and, of those, some may die. It all boils down to how much risk you are willing to take. IMHO I don't need a FL vacation that much.

I've owned both the 510 and the 507 systems. As I recall the basic sensors for both have the same configuration. There's an outer security case and you remove the 3 screws to take the outer case off. It does NOT open up the sensor itself. Lots of people remove the security shells and use the sensors without them. Once you've removed the security cover you can unscrew the case to replace the battery.

If you search RV forums there are lots of comments about Visible. I had it for ~6 months. It's like many other low priority cellular services--the service can vary from very good to awful on a moment to moment basis or location to location. If you don't need a 24/7 high speed connection, Visible probably will work for you. One of the reason I decided against it was that I like to combine my cellular connections using a load balancing router and Visible was so unstable, at my location, that it messed up the load balancing.